Running the Business · Part 3

Subcontracts with GCs: the twelve clauses to read, what to strike, and what to negotiate

Lesson 2.3 covered how to get onto a general contractor's list and the four pressure points in every subcontract. This lesson is the full review: the twelve clauses a plumber reads before signing, in the order they appear in most GC forms, with the California rule that governs each one, what the law already gives you so you can leave the clause alone, what you should strike because the law makes it void anyway, and what you should negotiate because nothing protects you but the negotiation. It ends with the subcontract review checklist the template set carries, so the review takes twenty minutes and happens every time.